Satellite-Only Borehole Yield Benchmark — Initial Release
This release archives the complete reproducible workflow accompanying the manuscript:
"Limits of satellite-only borehole yield prediction in crystalline basement
aquifers: a spatially honest benchmark workflow from the Central Region of Ghana
and implications for West African settings"
Tonon Abdul-Shafiu Mahmud, Gaddafi Abdul-Salaam, Cyril D. Boateng
Submitted to Computers & Geosciences (Elsevier), 2026.
What is included
SBGWI computation pipeline
Spatial-Ridge meta-learner implementation
District-disjoint Spatial Group-KFold cross-validator
Leakage gap quantification protocol
Self-supervised denoising autoencoder ablation
All diagnostic figure generation scripts
Reproducibility manifest with SHA-256 checksums
Benchmark metrics (district-disjoint evaluation)
Stage 1 F1-score: 0.600 | AUC-ROC ≈ 0.50
Stage 2 R²: 0.025 | RMSE: 1.279 m³/h | Spearman ρ: 0.052
Random CV inflation gap: ΔR² = 0.305–0.335 across all architectures
Requirements
See requirements.txt for Python dependencies.
Live deployment
Interactive yield screening tool:
raga-africa.com
Citation
If you use this benchmark, please cite the manuscript (DOI to be added upon acceptance).